# Thermal burns  degree unspecified at SCURLOCK INDUSTRIES OF SPRINGFIELD, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2025054903` · 5/23/2025 · SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Thermal burns  degree unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with hot objects or substances
- **Source:** Molten metal, slag
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** SCURLOCK INDUSTRIES OF SPRINGFIELD, INC.
- **Location:** 3401 WEST COMMERCIAL STREET, SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI, 65803
- **NAICS:** 327390
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was welding flared ends in the wire room inside the warehouse when a piece of welding slag fell and burned through his jeans and into his left boot. The employee was hospitalized with a burn to the top of his left ankle and required surgery.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*